Tuesday, December 14, 2010

I saw this message for a while before investigating it. A couple of google search led me to nowhere. Basically, there were some questions on it but no answers. Given that there are probably a few ways to get into this, its probably better to figure out how to track it down.

So the message looks like the following:

Skipping entry 0x7f090003 in package table 0 because it is not complex!

A great message if there ever was one. Anyway, the first thing to do is look at the generated output. In eclipse, its under <project>/gen/<pkgname>/R.java. The R.java file looks like the following:

/* AUTO-GENERATED FILE. DO NOT MODIFY.
*
* This class was automatically generated by the
* aapt tool from the resource data it found. It
* should not be modified by hand.
*/

package fi.eye.android;

public final class R {
public static final class anim {
public static final int boxanimation=0x7f040000;
public static final int fade_in=0x7f040001;
public static final int fade_out=0x7f040002;
public static final int home_grid_fade=0x7f040003;
public static final int slide_left=0x7f040004;
public static final int slide_right=0x7f040005;

continues for a long time......

So its easy to just search for the offending value to determine what value to look for. In my case, it was a style attribute. Some items require a style with a one or more specific items defined. So in the your res/values/styles.xml file you might have something like:

The 'value' is the important bit. some item names refer to more complicated values, such as android:textViewStyle. So you can either define another style with the set of common values or replace it with a specific value such as <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item>.